You think that they can't afford to buy more of them?
No, I think that if you can reasonably expect your representative to know your name and face because he's representing 10k people instead of pretending to represent a million people, he can't be bought without losing his seat.
various nonsense about the DoD
You're suggesting we cut a smaller budget line item than bennies. SS+Medicare are nearly double the defense budget. Sure there's plenty of bullshit in that too, but there's no reason we can't cut both.
directly benefit the public
You keep repeating this lie that taking $100 and giving $80 back 40 years later after adjusting for inflation and benefits increases is somehow a good thing.
various nonsense about AirBnBs
The REITs and investment companies holding SFHs aren't doing it for AirBnB income, they're doing it for long-term rental income. Any short-term rental is incidental to creating a perpetual serf class that can't own their own home and has to rent from generic_megacorp
You're suggesting we cut a smaller budget line item than bennies. SS+Medicare are nearly double the defense budget. Sure there's plenty of bullshit in that too, but there's no reason we can't cut both.
First off, you're having to add together two government programs to make this claim. That's already a shitty premise. Secondly, spending for social security is in the billions. The military budget is in the trillions. How the fuck do you get "nearly double" and get it in the wrong direction? 560 billion SS + 755 billion medicare vs 1.73 trillion. That's 1.3 trillion for both programs, not fucking 3 trillion. Holy fucking shit misinformed. Did you think military spending was began with and ended with DOD funding alone? Yet you want to smoosh together two separate social programs that actually directly help the American people.
You keep repeating this lie that taking $100 and giving $80 back 40 years later after adjusting for inflation and benefits increases is somehow a good thing.
Beats taking 100$ and seeing none of it spent inside my town, my state or my country. Your libertarian utopia isn't going to happen, sorry.
No, I think that if you can reasonably expect your representative to know your name and face because he's representing 10k people instead of pretending to represent a million people, he can't be bought without losing his seat.
You're suggesting we cut a smaller budget line item than bennies. SS+Medicare are nearly double the defense budget. Sure there's plenty of bullshit in that too, but there's no reason we can't cut both.
You keep repeating this lie that taking $100 and giving $80 back 40 years later after adjusting for inflation and benefits increases is somehow a good thing.
The REITs and investment companies holding SFHs aren't doing it for AirBnB income, they're doing it for long-term rental income. Any short-term rental is incidental to creating a perpetual serf class that can't own their own home and has to rent from generic_megacorp
First off, you're having to add together two government programs to make this claim. That's already a shitty premise. Secondly, spending for social security is in the billions. The military budget is in the trillions. How the fuck do you get "nearly double" and get it in the wrong direction? 560 billion SS + 755 billion medicare vs 1.73 trillion. That's 1.3 trillion for both programs, not fucking 3 trillion. Holy fucking shit misinformed. Did you think military spending was began with and ended with DOD funding alone? Yet you want to smoosh together two separate social programs that actually directly help the American people.
Beats taking 100$ and seeing none of it spent inside my town, my state or my country. Your libertarian utopia isn't going to happen, sorry.